Surprise: Fobos-Grunt sends signal
Submit on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 22:59
On 22 November at 2025 UTC, ESA’s tracking station at Perth, Australia, briefly established contact with Russia’s Fobos-Grunt spacecraft. While there is a lot of speculation regarding the possibilities of saving the mission (at least partially), this first contact is only a very small step towards that goal.
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